Re:CoffeeScript for TypeScript
by brundolf on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:29PM
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I think you're talking about two separate things here,
1) Having to learn an entirely new syntax just to save on a few characters (it "decompresses" directly to the original thing)
2) Explicitness vs implicitness/inference
I wholly agree with you about #1 (superficial brevity isn't a very important goal and doesn't justify a whole new language), but #2 is much more of an "it depends"
1) Having to learn an entirely new syntax just to save on a few characters (it "decompresses" directly to the original thing)
2) Explicitness vs implicitness/inference
I wholly agree with you about #1 (superficial brevity isn't a very important goal and doesn't justify a whole new language), but #2 is much more of an "it depends"